Gonna start grinding about 30 min before my lesson. Should help me get warmed up and focused.

I want to discuss a hand where i lost a big pot w/ vital myth, and make a few notes of what i feel i have been noticing at 25NL

Every one seems to be 3 betting very lite, and no one seems to be folding very much to 3 bets. I am going to employ a strategy of three betting wider for value, and seldom as a bluff. In addition, I am going to be opening much tighter than I normally would because I do not want to be 3 bet folding.

The 25NL pool seems like all the players lean toward super cally or super spazzy. Vs the spazzier people i intend to play a more pot controlly game, and vs the more cally people I intend to play more for thin value.

Got a new HEM HUD setup and it looks really tight. Working again at getting better at micro stakes rush poker. So far there is no doubt that if i creatively value bet and steal tiny pots (like 3-5bb pots) it should be really +ev. My big bluffs are never working. I think before running any big bluffs i need very individualized reads to make it happen.

I'm sitting on my couch and i listening to comedy. I'm in good spirits and ready to really play a concentrated 10NL session.

First session this weekend

Had a very relaxing and good weekend. Talked w/ my girlfriend who i love very much on the phone quite a bit, and partied w/ my Ecuadorian friends down town.

My life feels well in balance. I studied today, cooked for the week, feel caught up on all my work, and feel very well rested. I think i am mentally in a place where I will be able to put in a solid session today.

Read a good post today my Janda.

http://www.cardrunners.com/blog/Matthew%20Janda/extremely-long-and-awesome-post-on-my-theory-of-downswings

Starting anew

Here is the first post of what will be my poker journal.

Started the day out feeling motivated and good about poker. I played a good session today, w/ a lot of lite 3 betting in pos vs MP and LP openers. This has been very successful.

http://weaktight.com/3150987

Here I like my small turn bet. I keep in hands like AT KT JT 9T and 99.

I think my turn call is marginal at best. he is certainly doing it for value and never doing it w/ JT or 9T. He at worst probably has AT or KT or a bluff.

My river call is the most abysmally bad thing I could do. When I call turn I am repping that I have a very strong top pair at worst. I highly doubt villain is bluffing me here on river and I only beat a bluff. Time to fold river.

Any way, I am going to finish laundry, clean my kitchen, and watch a calculus video before bed. If i get all that done I think i'll put in another 20-30 min session before grinding calc all day tomorrow.

recap of the month.

I've had a pretty crappy month, but am up about 1K total on the month. I prefer to make a minimum of 2K-3K excluding rakeback/ bonus, but I ran/played very poorly I think. I just finishd my coaching deal with vital myth, so now all my profit is mine to keep. I want to get some sweat sesssions with some other CR members going on that play 100 and 200NL. I think I could stand to learn a few things still.

The most +ev poker in the world

I finally found a girl I am attracted to and it is the most +EV thing that has happened to me in a while. She deals cards at a casino, so it is perfect for me. I get to make money and talk with her all at once.

Talk about +EV. I am going back to the casino once again today because it is so plus EV. Fish plus a beautiful women = major bank. I love it. Not to mention I skooled some fish last night for like 300BB ship it. It kina sucked though cause when she was dealing I lost like 40-50$ so I didn't get to impress her with taking down a monster pot and then making a very -EV tip(I literally think I would have tipped her like 15$ or something stupid like that). As it stands I tipped the dealer a dollar. I think it was a fat man......so a dollar is enough I think. I also tipped the cocktail waitress a few times (I'm so nice)

Changing sites

Yeah, coaching has been going very will with Vital Myth(Corwin Cole). I moved up to 200NL and won a bunch, and then got smacked down. Moved back to 100NL and then switched sites to play at aboslute.Their bonus/vip progaram seem very much worth my while, and even though the software totall sucks, it is very +ev to play there. I face stomp regs, and the short stack fish there. My results have not shown this as of they as I have been running exceptionally bad as of late and over the last 16K hands have been running at just over 1ptbb/100. Hopefully this can improve and I can get a BR of 10K and then play 200NL on absolute. Hopefully that goes well for me. I will try to update this more often. I am sure that since i stopped posting I have lost every reader I possibly could have had. LOL. Hopefully I can woo you back.